An IT engineer who sold £58,000 of equipment stolen from Britain's National Air Traffic Control Centre on eBay was yesterday jailed for 15 months.

Judge Peter Henry branded Andrew Woffinden "a threat to national security" after hearing computers he took from the Swanwick base contained secret data on military and commercial flights. He claimed to have wiped them but lacked the expertise to do so. Portsmouth crown court was told Woffinden, 43, of Fareham, Hants, stole to pay his wife's credit cards.